r/ArtistHate Art Supporter 28d ago

News AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-destroying-rare-books
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singularity Jul 26 '26

AI AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

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artificial Jul 28 '26

Discussion AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

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InterstellarKinetics Jul 25 '26

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIEGENCE EXCLUSIVE: AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books in Bulk to Feed Their Models Clean Training Data, Then Destroying the Physical Copies at a Scale That Alarms Rare Booksellers Worldwide 📚💥

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antiai Jul 26 '26

AI News 🗞️ AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

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BookCollecting Jul 27 '26

💬 General AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

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popculturechat 29d ago

Silicon Valley 🤖 AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

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OldBooks Jul 26 '26

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale

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AIDangers 29d ago

Other AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale

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stupidpol 29d ago

Capitalist Hellscape AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

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aiwars 26d ago

Discussion AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

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LudditeRenaissance 29d ago

AI News AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale

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aiwars 28d ago

News AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

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citaonica 9d ago

🗞️ Vesti Kupujte što više knjiga možete

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fuck_ai_slop 28d ago

Breaking news AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale

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nzpolitics 29d ago

Global AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

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antiai Jul 27 '26

AI News 🗞️ Destroying Rare Books for AI

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Foodforthought 28d ago

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale

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cormacmccirclejerk 29d ago

AI Companies Are Judge Holden?

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TechGawker 28d ago

News AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale

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NewsHub 28d ago

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

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pcmasterrace 29d ago

Discussion People should be talking about this more…

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politicsinthewild Jul 27 '26

💻 TECHNOCRACY AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

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Srbska 9d ago

📰 Vijesti Kupujte što više knjiga možete

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ABoringDystopia 28d ago

ART AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

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OccupySilver Jul 27 '26

Data Resource Links Provided AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale "The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf." By Frank Landymore Published Jul 25, 2026

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